Why do medical tests happen on rats before they happen on humans? What biological link do we have to rats?

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It’s more that they are easy to breed and to have a lot of them. The accuracy of the tests is very low. Even tests on animals like monkeys, who are much more similar to humans, are not very accurate.

This is a big argument of the people, who are against animal testing. Testing on nonhuman animals will never be as accurate as on humans. However, as you can imagine, it is hard to find human volunteers.

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